PakG1

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   by PakG1 8y ago

   The difference is that the domestic population of China is large enough to provide plenty of economic activity such that foreign tourists actually don't really move the needle. If you were operating a business, what would you do in th
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   by PakG1 8y ago

   I'm quite confident you actually didn't read the article....
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   by PakG1 8y ago

   Which makes sense, but if true, quote in OP article would be vastly inaccurate and changes everything.
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   by PakG1 8y ago

   Wow, a thousand a day? Is that full wages, or does it include benefits? Even if it did include benefits, $1,000/day all-in is not exactly chump change. Universal income would not pay them $1,000/day.
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   by PakG1 8y ago

   If it can get economical, it won't (at least, not for a while). There are interesting cases of companies trying to make shoe products from ocean plastic (or perhaps it's shoreline plastic before it reaches the ocean, I can't
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   by PakG1 8y ago

   How about user count? Isn't that the only metric that really matters for the question of who won? Slack beat IRC for work-related chat. It hasn't beat email for general written communication.
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   by PakG1 8y ago

   Problem happened with SuperDrives too though. :(
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   by PakG1 8y ago

   Migrating to Mattermost from Slack and transitioning all the data is easy. My team at work transitioned to Mattermost a few years ago. https://docs.mattermost.com/administration/migrating.html#mi...
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   by PakG1 8y ago

   That sounds horrible. I'd rather tell everyone that I can't rip their DVDs! :(
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    by PakG1 8y ago

    Tried this, same result.
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    by PakG1 8y ago

    IANAL, but is that seriously a legal risk? The guy would have to explain he stole it.
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    by PakG1 8y ago

    I manage the IT for a school. As we've gone more and more away from DVDs (thanks, Apple), teachers have been asking me to rip their old DVDs. Tried doing that, but a lot of the DVDs did not rip perfectly, so that the ripped video end
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    by PakG1 8y ago

    The way Bill Gates is doing it makes sense to me, and I imagine many of the super rich probably find a similar model. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_Investment It financially does not make sense to have all eg
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    by PakG1 8y ago

    I think this is an example that shows many corporations have their own interests at heart. They care about making money. They do not care about the national interests of their home country. To be honest, it's difficult for multinatio
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    by PakG1 8y ago

    I don't believe it's impossible for you to be correct and for the Chinese government to still be seriously concerned about revolution risk. Whatever the reasons are, it is what it is. FWIW, I do agree with all your points too.
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    by PakG1 8y ago

    China has had 4 or 5 revolutions (depending on whether you want to count the Cultural Revolution; it was perhaps an anti-revolution where while revolutions normally attempt to overthrow the government, the cultural revolution attempted to m
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    by PakG1 8y ago

    As many companies have discovered, it's better to cannibalize your own market share with your own new cheaper product than let other companies eat your market share. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDrMAzCHFUU&t=4m
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    by PakG1 8y ago

    This is a fantastic example and explanation (kudos to you) of value pricing vs cost pricing.
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    by PakG1 8y ago

    Given where Time Magazine is today, the sad fact may be that Time is no longer influential enough to decide who's influential anymore... :(
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    by PakG1 8y ago

    I wonder how much IT security will start to play into due diligence efforts in acquisitions in the future. It seems there's an inordinate amount of risk exposure in security matters. Then again, I think Equifax is still a healthy com
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    by PakG1 8y ago

    I actually am surprised that services like Steam, the Apple App Store, and Google Play are able to command as high a margin as they do for sales commission. I mean, it's obviously possible because it's reality, but it's noni
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    by PakG1 8y ago

    They can't access YouTube anyway to watch this video. /s
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    by PakG1 8y ago

    Wouldn't global maxima simply be local maxima per planet? :)
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    by PakG1 8y ago

    Rather, I think you were reading too much into the original statement. He talked about ML/AI because the threads are about ML/AI. He wasn't saying only ML/AI experienced this. His point was about ethnic population pro
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    by PakG1 8y ago

    Who said other branches of CS don't experience this?
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    by PakG1 8y ago

    Many thanks, may reach out in the future. :)
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    by PakG1 8y ago

    Many thanks, may do so in the future. :)
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    by PakG1 8y ago

    Thanks, I'll join soon, depending on my prognosis. Hope it's not bad to say this, but prefer to not join too many things to limit the volume of emails going into my inbox! :)
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    by PakG1 8y ago

    Thanks everyone, HN rocks as usual. :)
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    Ask HN: Resources for blind developers and sysadmins?

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